After seeing this picture on one of my favourite sites, News of the Unreal, I thought I’d do a bit of research on this yellow submarine. The one-man submarine in the picture is named Viperfish and was launched and built by American inventor and submarine enthusiast Dan Scott Taylor in 1969 for the hunt for [...]
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According to our tour guide (on the left, below) on a walk in Budapest, the very special syntax used by Yoda from Star Wars is in fact Hungarian. As a quick refresher, these are examples of Yoda-speak (from http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002173.html): Always two there are, no more. Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is. Much to [...]
Pic by kjpickwick Outside a small house in Gough Square, just north of Fleet Street in London is a bronze statue of a proud and slightly fierce moggie. Why might this be? The house in question was inhabited by Samuel Johnson, compiler of the very first English dictionary, and it was here that he compiled [...]
On our road trip in the US last summer, one of must-sees on the itinerary was the Neon Boneyard in Las Vegas. Not being much of a gambler or glitzy show watcher, I had to find alternatives for our visit to Sin City and this seemed a great way to learn a bit more about [...]
Valentine’s Day 2012 The Manoir are holding a very special Valentine’s night experience. Billed “Dark Valentine Night” you’ll tour through the Manoir in total darkness apart from one light, and to mark Valentine’s day you’ll be serenaded by “love songs and rock and roll” and attacked by 20 monsters. Got to be better than an [...]
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